NEXT Tickets

If you're in Chicago, Free passes for NEXT:


PLEASE BE OUR GUEST!

More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations--galleries, project spaces and art publications from around the world.

You and a guest are invited to attend the Artropolis, enter promotional code NextGuest on the ticket order form.

let me know if it doesn't work.

NEXT getup

Preview of suits for NEXT... Allen helped me find some great stuff today:




you can't tell but I have bright blue pants on
media blackout until it's over but I'm trying to work out a different one for each of the five days.

Packaging Arrived

The packaging arrived for my project @ NEXT, I'm going to spend most of tonight filling/fitting all the boxes with the appropriate accoutrement:


PS
Press Release:



PPS
I got a fortune cookie today that (I hope) relates to this project:

HerpFest

My stepbrother Jason is involved with the Chicago Herpetological Society
They had a trade show(?) today, I went to check it out:







A quick auto-portrait before I left:

What's this?

Blank pieces of paper?


more like important information:

Invisible Ink

I'm working on a project with invisible ink (you can only see it with a blacklight)... here are some quick tests:







The ink is water soluble and you can do light washes, but you're pretty much limited to two or three tones...with a really light touch. Everything after that gets muddled together. Also, if you over do it, a thin yellow film builds up on the paper, pretty much defeating the purpose of invisible ink.
I bought it from Jet Pens
they're really good